After 80 years in print, Newsweek announced last year that it would merge with the Daily Beast and become an online only magazine. According to Businessweek, last year, Tina Brown’s Newsweek/Daily Beast (she is founder and editor-in-chief) was set to
The Daily Beast had quite a scoop, today. Contrary to what the Obama campaign’s “Fight the Smears” website alleged back in 2008, Obama was once friendly with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and did hold a political fundraiser in his living
A wave of anti-abortion legislation that has made North Dakota the most Pro-life state in the nation has led Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic in Fargo, to dig in her heels. The sole abortion provider
Howard Kurtz is the media’s most diligent watchdog, just ask him. His weekly CNN program, “Reliable Sources” and his regular column at The Daily Beast, are supposed to serve as bellwethers for the most important media stories of any given week. As
On April 6, The Daily Beast lamented the fact that the NRA has won the day on the current gun control battle, but they claimed that the current victory will be short lived–“Wayne LaPierre may have won the week…but the
On last Friday’s “The Situation Room” on CNN, Wolf Blitzer allowed commentator and activist John Avlon to attack Sarah Palin without disclosing to the viewers that Avlon is a co-founded the anti-Tea Party group No Labels. Blitzer introduced Avlon as
A revealing and sycophantic profile of Fox News’ Shepard Smith appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, and it explored the anchor’s mad love for Rachel Maddow and skepticism over the Catholic Church’s policy toward women. One aspect
I knew I’d end up using the “Frum” category sooner or later, even though the default, and proper, response to David Frum is to ignore him until he goes away. I’m reminded of Iowahawk’s rule about captioning every New Yorker
A raging gun battle with mad-dog killer Chris Dorner erupts at Big Bear Lake in California. Two officers down, and the killer’s fate is still unknown at the moment of this writing. But the media has its priorities. Howard
Lloyd Green, who writes for the Daily Beast, noted how ferociously Breitbart News has gone after Karl Rove for trying to anoint Establishment candidates in Republican primaries who may hold values antithetical to those held by the “Jacksonian” conservatives who make
TINA BROWN, EDITOR NEWSWEEK/DAILY BEAST: I mean, he’d be impeached by now for drones if he was W. Bush. MAHER: Impeached? No. BROWN: Yeah, don’t you think? I mean, don’t you think… MAHER: Impeached for… BROWN: Well, I think… MAHER:
Yesterday, I hopped over to CNN/Newsweek/Daily Beast staffer David Frum’s twitter feed when I heard that he was spreading the lie that gun rights advocates had heckled the father of a Newtown massacre victim. Of course, that claim was quickly debunked and several high
Tuesday morning, many in the media went all in with a sanctimonious attack against gun-rights supporters, whom they accused of heckling Neil Heslin, the parent of a six-year-old boy murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre. The only problem is that it was all
What kind of media reporter never makes the media angry — unless he’s being publicly accused of selling his soul for a scoop long past the date anyone would care about it? Howard Kurtz is a media reporter, right? I
Liberal Fox News Contributor and Daily Beast columnist Kirstin Powers on the Obama-Hillary Clinton “60 Minutes” interview:
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony nominee, Oscar nominee, film director, and reformed liberal, David Mamet, penned a lengthy warning today about Obama’s gun control push for the Daily Beast: The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands
David Mamet’s piece at the Daily Beast is chock full of wonderful observations: But where in the Constitution is it written that the Government is in charge of determining “needs”? And note that the president did not say “I have
A little of what Hot Air’s Allahpundit might describe as Blue on Blue violence. Apparently, HuffPo’s Vicky Ward was negotiating for a “Vanity Fair” interview with Jill Kelley, one of the women swooped up in the Petraeus scandal. She refused
As we’re seeing with the politics surrounding Rev. Louie Giglio, the media is using the issue of homosexuality as a way to to redefine morality in order to score points against the Right. In the case of Giglio, we had
According to a credible source with inside knowledge of the matter, the actual reason Andrew Sullivan and the Daily Beast are parting ways at the end of this month has nothing to do with some high-falutin’ “duty to try and
Columnist for the Daily Beast, Buzz Bissinger on Piers Morgan Tonight: “I don’t care what the justification is that you’re allowed in this country to own a semi-automatic weapon – much less a handgun. But what do you need a
As the House refused to pass the pork-laden $60 billion Sandy Relief Bill, the official Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy Twitter accounts immediately began to attack the Republican Party for not passing it, instead of the fact that the
Right of center Americans have been ridiculing Sean Penn for years but he’s had his critics on the left as well. The Daily Beast recently joined that small group of left-wing sources critical of Penn with a devastating piece lambasting
As we all know, CNN Contributor and Daily Beast columnist David Frum is really nothing more than a mercenary opportunist, and one who’s increasingly desperate for attention. But who knew he was willing to go this far after the news
Like all of us, David Frum of The Daily Beast was angered by the shootings in a Connecticut grade school today. He was also angered by Second Amendment supporters tweeting him about the incident, saying that he “won’t accept lectures”
President Barack Obama’s supporters and the mainstream media have been perpetuating two pieces of false conventional wisdom heading into Election Day — that demographics alone will power Obama to victory on Election Day and Democrats are assured of a long-term
On the Sunday, October 28 edition of ABC’s This Week, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast claimed that Obama might lose this election because the whole South is filled with racists that are somehow just like the Old Confederacy. As
Tuesday, the day after a debate Obama supposedly won, the CorruptMedia was going through a quiet meltdown. Though polls showed Obama had won the debate, all the internals and focus groups showed Romney had won the bigger argument of moving
Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website, talks to Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King about the recent announcement that after 80 years, Newsweek magazine will stop publishing a print edition at the end of 2012.
(AP) Newsweek had unique troubles as industry recoversBy RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Business WriterLOS ANGELESNewsweek’s decision to stop publishing a print edition after 80 years and bet its life entirely on a digital future may be more a commentary on its own
Newsweek/Daily Beast: We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will
As the President’s disastrous debate performance from last week continues to reverberate throughout the left, the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan indulged a meltdown equal to, if not surpassing, that of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews whose epic post debate night rant made conservatives
Buzz Bissinger knows sports. The author of “Friday Night Lights” and lifelong Democrat isn’t a political pundit by trade, but he felt so strongly about the fallout from the first presidential debate that he took to the cyber-pages of The
Michelle Goldberg recently posted a piece titled “Abortion at Sea” on the Daily Beast. Her effort can only be described as revolting, as she attempted to apply lace to the disgusting dress of evangelic-infanticide while also managing to reinforce other
Kirsten Powers wants to know “What did they know, and when did they know it?” about Obama’s massive foreign policy failures in the Middle East as our embassies went up in flames last week. She went on to say that
If these reports are true, and I suspect we all know they are — what we have here is nothing more than a scandalous White House cover up and Obama’s Media Palace Guards so terrified of Obama losing, they refuse
Novelist Martin Amis took in the Republican National Convention late last month and apparently required roughly two weeks file his report for The Daily Beast. After all, name calling can’t be done without some serious thought. Here’s Amis on Ann
Defending the current administration is getting tougher and tougher for left-leaning celebrities. It often means endorsing pretzel-like logic, the kind that only makes matters worse. So when Vice President Joe Biden teed up an outrageous comment to a group full
David Frum at The Daily Beast uses his frustration about the lack of gun control momentum in the aftermath of the Aurora shootings to take an incoherent swipe at the Republicans attention to the Fast and Furious scandal. The right-wing
A big publishing story of 2010 was when stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman bought financially troubled Newsweek Magazine for $1 in the hopes of revitalizing the venerable old publication into the “thought leader” it once was. Now, since Mr. Harman’s
